Peter McWilliams

Peter McWilliams was a world renown author of many books, a libertarian activist, and an advocate of full legalization of marijuana. He spoke at the 1998 Libertarian Party convention calling out to Libertarians to work for medicinal marijuana "for our children."

Ailments

In 1996 Peter McWilliams was diagnosed with both cancer and AIDS. Like many cancer patients, Peter was unable to keep his pills down to stay alive due to intense nausea, thereby rendering the pills useless. Also like many cancer patients, he found that smoking marijuana relieved the nausea and soothed the constant pain he was in allowing him to take his pills, keep them down, and keep him alive.

Medicinal Marijuana Activism

Once Peter discovered that marijuana was the most "benign medical substance known to human beings," he decided to dedicate his life in the struggle to legalize medicinal marijuana throughout the country.

Quotes by Peter McWilliams

• Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science. -- 1998 LP National Convention